As Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader in the House, closed his eight-hour House floor speech, a last-ditch effort to delay the vote on Donald Trump’s budget, he reminded his congressional audience to turn to the Declaration of Independence, which, he told them, “reads like an indictment against an out-of-control king.” The point was lost on some lis…
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